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...Little World of Don Camillo. A film version of Giovannino Guareschi's bestselling novel about a militant parish priest and a Communist mayor; with France's Fernandel, Italy's Gino Cervi (TIME...
...George Jessel originated the part of the jazz singer on the stage in 1925. * Author Guareschi, who uses humor as a political weapon in combating Communism, has expressed dissatisfaction with the movie version of his book because the film Peppone turns out to be too nice a fellow. Guareschi is writing a screen sequel which he promises will embody a stronger anti-Communist message...
...LITTLE WORLD OF DON CAMILLO (205 pp.)-Giovanni Guareschi -Pellegrini & Cudahy...
Such impious bad taste mars these otherwise simple but forced folk tales, which have gone into seven editions in Italy. Author Guareschi is a magazine editor who spent much of the war in German concentration camps and has now been singled out as a class enemy by no less a figure than Italian Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti. Guareschi is a whole imagination away from the "Italian James Thurber" that his publishers hopefully label him, but The Little World is a dual Book-of-the-Month Club selection, which ought to please them just as much...